Great question! No, we recommend you start with our Female Hormone Blood Test first. This will help you or us (your practitioner) know how to support you to bring your period on, without wasting time or money on this test (requires 11 samples be taken over time.

If you have an irregular period or no period, we can use one simple blood draw as a snapshot to help us understand perhaps why your period is irregular and where in that moment your body was in a potential cycle. This allows us to give you the best guidance for whatever your particular goals are (usually getting it back).

Then, once you have your period again, if it's necessary, you could test again with this cycling saliva test to further optimize your cycle (say you have frustrating symptoms, or fertility goals).

Great question! It depends. If your cycle is regular enough (consistently every 28-39 days, even if very different in length, bleeding, symptoms), then we recommend you start with this test.

If your period is spaced out and varies quite a bit, consider our Female Hormone Blood Test first. This will help you or us (your practitioner) know how to support you to bring your period on (if that's your goal), without wasting time or money on this test (requires 11 samples be taken over time).

This Cycling test lets us really see the ebb and flow of your hormones across the entire cycle. So, we only recommend it when we know there will be enough information (from your period) to work with. It requires a bit of coordination (must be home to freeze samples), it's a little more money, but the 11 data points across estrogen and progesterone are gold, as well a the 7 FSH & LH data points (and testosterone and DHEA averages)

Nope! Head here.

Open this requisition form and follow along with us.

Go to the second page — see how there's an 'average cycle' and a 'prolonged cycle' choice? Depending on your cycle, you'll follow the smaller boxes under the appropriate cycle length that you choose.

Say you choose 'average cycle'. See where there's the option to check Day 1, 2, or 3 as your first sample? You'd need to be home for one of those three days to put your saliva sample into the freezer after collection.

Now, lets move on to the Day 4, 5, 6 option — if you choose day 3 last time, ideally you wouldn't choose day 4 for this option...we're trying to space them out to get a good sense of the rises and falls of your hormones.

So, as you can see, you sort of need to be home every 2-3 days, depending on which collection phase you're in. Questions? Hit the chat button on the bottom right of your screen.